Applications of optical microcombs

Y Sun, J Wu, M Tan, X Xu, Y Li, R Morandotti… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

Microcomb-driven silicon photonic systems

H Shu, L Chang, Y Tao, B Shen, W Xie, M Jin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Microcombs have sparked a surge of applications over the past decade, ranging from optical
communications to metrology,,–. Despite their diverse deployment, most microcomb-based …

Quantifying the accuracy of microcomb-based photonic RF transversal signal processors

Y Sun, J Wu, Y Li, M Tan, X Xu, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic RF transversal signal processors, which are equivalent to reconfigurable electrical
digital signal processors but implemented with photonic technologies, are attractive for high …

Soliton formation and spectral translation into visible on CMOS-compatible 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform

C Wang, J Li, A Yi, Z Fang, L Zhou, Z Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advancements in integrated soliton microcombs open the route to a wide range of
chip-based communication, sensing, and metrology applications. The technology translation …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in semiconductor ring lasers

B Meng, M Singleton, J Hillbrand, M Franckié… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr solitons are self-organized optical waves arising from the interplay between
the Kerr effect and dispersion. They can form in nonlinear microresonators by deliberately …

Integrated gallium nitride nonlinear photonics

Y Zheng, C Sun, B Xiong, L Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Gallium nitride (GaN) as a wide bandgap material is widely used in solid‐state lighting.
Thanks to its high nonlinearity and high refractive index contrast, GaN‐on‐insulator (GaNOI) …

Exploiting ultralow loss multimode waveguides for broadband frequency combs

X Ji, JK Jang, UD Dave… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Low propagation loss in high confinement waveguides is critical for chip‐based nonlinear
photonics applications. Sophisticated fabrication processes which yield sub‐nm roughness …

Dispersive-wave induced noise limits in miniature soliton microwave sources

QF Yang, QX Ji, L Wu, B Shen, H Wang, C Bao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Compact, low-noise microwave sources are required throughout a wide range of application
areas including frequency metrology, wireless-communications and airborne radar systems …

Directly accessing octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in an AlN microresonator

H Weng, J Liu, AA Afridi, J Li, J Dai, X Ma… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Self-referenced dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) based on optical microresonators offer
prominent characteristics allowing for various applications from precision measurement to …